Lio Rush will replace Josh Alexander at Thursday’s Impact Wrestling x NJPW Multiverse United pay-per-view.
As PWMania.com previously reported, Alexander was forced to relinquish the Impact World Title last week due to a torn triceps. When Kushida faces Steve Maclin at Impact Rebellion on April 16, a new champion will be crowned. The original plan for Rebellion was to pit Maclin against Alexander.
This week, Alexander was also scheduled to defend his title against Kushida at Multiverse United. Impact has now scheduled Kushida vs. Rush in a standard singles match.
The Impact x NJPW “Multiverse United: Only The STRONG Survive” pay-per-view is set to take place on Thursday, March 30 from a sold-out Globe Theater in Los Angeles, CA, as part of WrestleCon and WWE’s WrestleMania 39 Weekend. The pre-show will begin at 10:45pm ET on FITE, followed by the main card at 11pm ET.
The updated card is as follows:
NJPW Strong Openweight Title Match
NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team Champion Minoru Suzuki vs. KENTA (c)
Impact X-Division Title Six-Way Scramble
Kevin Knight vs. Frankie Kazarian vs. Rocky Romero vs. Rich Swann vs. Clark Connors vs. Trey Miguel (c)
Fatal 4 Way for the Impact World Tag Team Titles
Aussie Open (Kyle Fletcher, Mark Davis) vs. NJPW Strong Openweight Tag Team Champions The Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley, Chris Sabin) vs. TMDK (Shane Haste, Bad Dude Tito) vs. The Bullet Club (Ace Austin, Chris Bey) (c)
Fatal 4 Way for a Shot at the Impact World Knockouts Title
Deonna Purrazzo vs. Gisele Shaw vs. Miyu Yamashita vs. Masha Slamovich
Winner will face Jordynne Grace for the vacant Knockouts World Title at Rebellion. If champion Mickie James is cleared to compete, then a Triple Threat will be held at Rebellion with James, Grace and the Fatal 4 Way winner.
Kushida vs. Lio Rush
Jeff Cobb vs. Moose
Hiroshi Tanahashi (replacing the injured Will Ospreay) vs. Mike Bailey
PCO, Fred Rosser, Sami Callihan and Alex Coughlin vs. Tom Lawlor, JR Kratos, Eddie Edwards and Impact Digital Media Champion Joe Hendry
Countdown To Multiverse United Pre-show
Yuya Uemura vs. Gabriel Kidd
